Aquaforest Searchlight

Case Study“Counterpart International takes to the cloud with Office365 and Aquaforest Searchlight”
We would like to share with you a case study written with Counterpart International www.counterpart.org

Counterpart international is an excellent example of a forward-thinking non-profit organization using cost effective, cutting edge technology to improve records management processes and further reduce operating costs.

As a company whose products interact with SharePoint regularly, we often get questions asking whether our product can work on “X” level of their SharePoint Structure.
Within this article, we hope to explain the different layers within SharePoint and how our Aquaforest Searchlight products can interact with them.

Upgrading to the latest release of Aquaforest Searchlight is relatively straight forward.

The following steps will guide you through the process.

Pre-requisites:

You will require the latest installer which can be downloaded from our download page.
You must have currently Searchlight 1.05 or later (to upgrade from earlier versions please contact support@www.aquaforest.com)
When upgrading from/to a new major version, you will normally need to request […]

One of the most common complaints about search is related to the quality and relevancy of results. The result set does not contain all the relevant documents. Or it has too many irrelevant documents. Or the combination of these two.

Maybe the expected, most relevant results are not displayed on the top of the result set. Or the presented results are […]

Find out how automated tools from Aquaforest and TermSet and can dramatically increase the findability of your Organization’s SharePoint documents.
Did you know that 80% of most organisations information is stored in office documents, but only 20% of this information can be found easily by employees. According to a study by The International Data Corporation (IDC), the average knowledge worker wastes 2.5 hours […]

Aquaforest Searchlight Lite can be installed on any Windows machine with network access to the SharePoint / O365 sites or file systems – it doesn’t need to be installed on a SharePoint server.
Aquaforest Searchlight Lite will crawl you documents and identify :
• Image Only PDF files.
• PDF files with […]

This post describes the different options available when using Aquaforest Searchlight to process documents in SharePoint Online and also addresses security questions.

Option 1
If you set up Searchlight in your local server and access SharePoint Online remotely as depicted in the diagram below, all documents will be downloaded and uploaded over SSL and therefore encrypted.